Yellow Dog PS3 Miscellany
November 3rd, 2006 by CrusaderTerra Soft Solutions’ CEO KaiStaats has made a few posts of interest to the
Plain and simple –the vast majority of Linux apps will not take advantage ofthe SPEs. The Cell is neither a traditional multi-core nor a collection ofDSPs. Special compile time libraries and some pretty serious re-coding arerequired to take advantage of the 6 available SPEs.
At boot, YDL shows 2 PPUs (one real, one a hyperthread) and 6 SPEs … but totake advantage of them is another story.
Next, Staats
Flash Player 9 Beta is now available for Linux, but not for the Powerarchitecture. Fortunately, Adobe offers a ‘feature request’ form:
I ask each and every one of you to submit your request for Flash for YellowDog Linux in order to showcase the strength of our userbase with enthusiasmfor the forthcoming Sony Playstation 3.
I encourage you to complete the form as follows in order that we speak with asingle, simple voice making less complicated their support initiative.
The
November 3rd, 2006 at 12:03 pm
dream on, it took them long enough to get a linux version of flash out.
November 3rd, 2006 at 12:44 pm
It would be better for all to put some more work into gnash, swfdec or some other open source flash player.
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Petition Adobe to release the specifications for flash format. That’s the proper way for true multiplatform support.
Besides, flash is the numero uno source of browser instability and annoying advertisements. Just forget it and live a happier life.
November 3rd, 2006 at 4:09 pm
flash and other proprietary cancers are piggybacking on it. If flash must exist the player better be free. On the other hand I can live completely without… (I don’t need any more ads)
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:49 pm
[q]dream on, it took them long enough to get a linux version of flash out.[/q]
One more reason to dream. The work done to make code run on two platforms, that is, to make it less system-dependent, will help to port it for a third.
And about getting rid of flash: 90% of the time it’s crap I want to avoid, but there is some use to it, or some content only available with flash. I think the “Flashblock” Firefox extension is the perfect solution. It ignores the flash objects, replacing them with a simple button. But if you click on it, it will load the flash in it’s place.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/433/
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/screenshots.html
November 4th, 2006 at 5:43 am
…people are right about what Flash has become. For the most part it’s used in banner adverts which I disable with Adblock. In my opinion it has become useful for streaming videos (syncing issues aside) which means no more worries about which format to use but this advantage only works if you make the Flash plugin available for all platforms otherwise it becomes just another unsupported format.
November 4th, 2006 at 5:55 am
…I think it is not up to us to tell Adobe which platforms to support. Adobe should be identifying all the most popular platforms and developing a Flash plugin for them automatically without any intervention from users and developers.
Now I am predicting the PS3 is going to be a very popular platform. I’m sure Adobe don’t need me to tell them that!
And why aren’t Sony on Adobe’s case.
November 4th, 2006 at 11:34 am
Good luck trying to view any of the TV websites (for schedule/lineup/more) w/out flash ;(
November 6th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
Acctually, Flash [i]does[/i] work on the built-in operating system…